Posted on 08/18/2007 3:24:55 AM PDT by Gunut
Bill Nye, the harmless children's edu-tainer known as "The Science Guy," managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentation, when he suggested that the moon does not emit light, but instead reflects the light of the sun.
As even most elementary-school graduates know, the moon reflects the light of the sun but produces no light of its own.
But don't tell that to the good people of Waco, who were "visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence," according to the Waco Tribune.
Nye was in town to participate in McLennan Community College's Distinguished Lecture Series. He gave two lectures on such unfunny and adult topics as global warming, Mars exploration, and energy consumption.
But nothing got people as riled as when he brought up Genesis 1:16, which reads: "God made two great lights -- the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars."
The lesser light, he pointed out, is not a light at all, but only a reflector.
At this point, several people in the audience stormed out in fury. One woman yelled "We believe in God!" and left with three children, thus ensuring that people across America would read about the incident and conclude that Waco is as nutty as they'd always suspected.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Even a reflection is light. It is just not the source. The Bible is still correct, these angry people are not.
Is this for real? :p
Bet there’s more to the story.
Some times I just close my eyes and shake my head.
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How do they not know that the sunlight bounces off the moon?
How do they think a lunar eclipse occurs?
God must shake his head in wonderment.
See # 8!
Just kidding, really... ; )
This came from bsalert.com? Well that sounds pretty accurate. I don’t buy this story for a second.
I bet they think moonbats were created by God, too.
Face it, some people are just idiots.
Flag on the moon!
(A quarter to anyone who catches THAT reference.)
Ya think?
” (A quarter to anyone who catches THAT reference.) “
Hey — I know somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody who is distantly related to somebody who knows somebody who was at the funeral of somebody who actually visited that sound stage in Arizona....
Proof enough for me......
Nope. Hint: It’s a movie reference. And I don’t mean Capricorn One. =)
Ignorance is Bliss.
To those people - Ignorance is also a Blister (on their backsides).
If you don’t use the brain God gave you, you get everything you deserve.
Isn't the consensus that the Lunar Module would have blown down the flag from Apollo 11 when it took off from the lunar surface?
In the movie Independence Day, don't they show the flag still standing?
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